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  Combining methodologies for better targeting of the extreme poor: lessons from BRAC’s CFPR/TUP programme

  Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, 2004

  This paper aims to assess the effectiveness and draw lessons from a targeting strategy used in identifying the ultra poor.
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  Donors and childhood poverty in sub Saharan Africa: approaches and aid mechanisms in Ghana and Tanzania

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004

  This paper study examines how selected donors approach poverty affecting children, and how they use aid to tackle child poverty through support to particular activities and through the aid instruments.
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  Government spending on children in MTEF 2004/05: spotlighting social development programmes

  Institute for Democracy in South Africa, 2004

  This brief focuses on child specific government programmes financed and administered by the provincial social development departments within the South African government.
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  The determinants of the health status in a developing country: results from the Columbian case

  Grupo de Investigaciones, Facultad de Economia, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia, 2004

  This paper describes the health system of Colombia and attempts to analyse the determinants of ‘health capital’.
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  Group Based Funeral Insurance in Ethiopia and Tanzania

  Department of Economics, University of Oxford, 2004

  This paper studies indigenous insurance institutions in Tanzania and Ethiopia. These highly structured organisations provide premium-based insurance for funerals, but are increasingly offering other types of insurance as well.
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  Effective distribution of social safety nets in Arab economies

  Arab Planning Institute, Kuwait, 2002

  [Document in Arabic] The paper aims to analyse the social safety net system in order to clarify the relationship between income distribution, growth and poverty in Arab economies. It attempts to determine the distributive pattern of financial aid provided by social safety net systems for the different strata of society.
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  The goal of workers’ welfare and policy challenges

  Strengthening Participatory Organization, Pakistan, 2003

  Pakistan’s recent Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (I-PRSP) has been criticised for failing to mention any policies for redundant industrial labour.
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  Tackling childhood poverty in Central and East Asia: donor approaches in Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia

  Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2003

  This report examines how donors approach poverty among children and young people in Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia.
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  Longevity in Russia’s regions: do poverty and low public health spending kill?

  World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2004

  This paper examines the impact of changes in poverty and public health spending on inter-temporal variations in longevity using a unique regional-level dataset that covers 77 regions of Russia over the period 1994-2000. The dynamic panel data model is used as a tool for the empirical analysis. The model is estimated using the Arellano-Bond dynamic panel data estimator.
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  A project framework for a development strategy targeting the ultra poor

  Eldis Document Store, 2004

  This paper aims to provide a project framework based on features of poverty described by the 'ultra poor' themselves.

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